Tales from the Sanctum

Tales from the Sanctum

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The Sanctum Secorum podcast plumbs the depths of Appendix N as it applies to DCC RPG. Each show reviews one piece of Appendix N media — be it literature or film — and then discusses how to bring aspects of it to the table for your DCC game. We explore how the selected piece might already easily fit into particular modules and DCC settings, and we highlight one specific DCC module that really ties into the Appendix N material.

Hey SF Bay Area reavers, cutpurses, heathen-slayers, and tight-lipped warlocks, we need some DCC judges for Big Bad Con. Please consider attending and running some games! Otherwise I’ll explode in a gory (not Gorey) mess trying to imitate the inimitable +Brendan LaSalle as I judge more games than I’m able…

Consider this a plea to help me run Dungeon Crawl Classics (DCC) RPG at this year’s Big Bad Con. Last year, we had 11 DCC events, this year (so far) we have 3. Last year, my games were packed (9-10 players at the table), so the demand is there. We have our own room, “The DCC Room of Doom,” in which to sling dice. For those of you unfamiliar with Big Bad Con, it’s my favorite RPG con. Easy to book games, cool folks, great venue, and it supports Doctors without Borders. At the very least, attend! And if you do attend, please consider running some DCC. =)

Phoenix, AZ is hosting Crit Hit 2017, a small convention with a number of great sounding DCC/MCC events (with all but the single MCC event being hosted in the “Spellburn” room). The convention has a “pay what you want” system for event registration but badges do have fixed prices. Among the events being run are…

The companion in the wild at at Roll for Damage in Grovetown, GA. Thanks to Guardian of Secrets Michael Hearn!

In honor of Free RPG Day 2017, Sanctum Secorum released our first ever physical companion. A very limited release, available in just a handful of locations, this release served as our first test-run for our upcoming “Friends of the Library” program, and introduced our first Guardians of Secrets.Read More »

We here at the Sanctum Secorum are fairly fond of our free episode companion ‘zine and it seems that you folks are too. We are pleased to announce that we have broken the 10,000 download mark with the ‘zine and hope that folks are getting some enjoyment and use out of it.

The planet was Earth. The time was fifty thousand years from now. Magic and witchcraft worked and the Old Science didn’t. Why this was so, nobody knew – it had always been that way during the long tyranny of the Empire of the East. During that same period there had always been little bands of rebels using fragments of white magic against the demonic armies. Rolf was the latest of these rebels – and he had on his side the mysterious power known as Ardneh.
When Rolf finally finds Ardneh, he learns of the Change through which Ardneh forced technology to be replaced by magic in this alternate Earth of a far distant future. The discovery of Ardneh’s origin, the climactic showdown of fifty millennia of cosmic contention, and Rolf’s part in it, combine to make a thrilling adventure that concludes the struggle between the Old Technology and the New Demonology.

We have often mentioned the upcoming selections of the Appendix N Book Club run in Brooklyn by Spellburn‘s Judge Jeff Goad. Lamentably, a good number of folks who would love to attend those discussions (including our Keeper’s of Mysteries) are not local to the group. This leaves a number of folks hungry for more Appendix N discussions.

Ask and ye shall receive. Judge Jeff Goad and his co-host Ngo Vinh-Hoi have launched a new podcast, The Appendix N Book Club. We are pleased to welcome this new addition to the Appendix N Podcasting community (seriously, there are very few) and we hope that they have a nice long run. Be sure to check them out!

Following up on the success of the scratch-off character sheets in last year’s holiday adventure, Twilight of the Solstice, Goodman Games has rolled out a new kickstarter. This effort, to print packets of scratch-off character sheets. The pre-generated characters draw upon a database of 50,000 0-level characters (provided by Jon Marr of Purple Sorcerer and Crawler’s Companion fame).